Quotes About Aspirations

Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

We all need the pipe dream of writing the great novel, or winning the pools, or becoming managing director and kicking all our colleagues in the teeth. The world is deep and dark and full of tigers, and we need those shimmering white castles in the air to creep into when life gets unbearable.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.

School-age boys had begun to define their life aims in terms of the occupations, and the prestige of the occupations, that lay ahead. They were asking, 'What is my work to be?' while the girls were wondering, 'Who will my husband be?

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

When girls set their sights on a career, they have to work it out of their systems. Otherwise the kitchen sink gets to be a kind of sacrificial altar.

Quand j'étais enfant, le luxe, c'était pour moi les manteaux de fourrure, les robes longues et les villas au bord de la mer. Plus tard, j'ai cru que c'était de mener une vie d'intellectuel. Il me semble maintenant que c'est aussi de pouvoir vivre une passion pour un homme ou une femme

There are so many things I want to do! Some are personal. Some are professional.

Everything has changed in my professional life; I get to live every dream - and more - that I ever wanted as a little girl, and as a teenager.

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

I certainly feel as if I've been blessed professionally and personally, but I've still got moves I'd like to make.

As I got to about 9/10 years old I started to see roles on television that I wanted to play like a police officer in 'The Bill' or be a part of the 'Goodness Gracious Me Family' which I think further fuelled the desire to do this professionally.

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

Every progressive movement has been built on the anger, needs, and aspirations of the emerging major class.

I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet.

New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought.

To me, KSW is a huge promotion and it's on my list of one of the things I want to do as an MMA fighter. I think that goes for any European fighter.

I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.